Biography
Prof. Haughton is co-lead of the energy security research challenge. Peter is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. After a year working in mineral exploration in the Irish Midlands, he took up a University of Glasgow Overseas Scholarship and obtained a PhD in 1986 for work on Old Red Sandstone conglomerates in the NE Midland Valley of Scotland. Subsequently he was appointed as a Britoil Research Fellow (1985-1988) and then a Royal Society of Edinburgh/BP Research Fellow (1988-1991), both at the University of Glasgow. From 1991 to 1996, he worked as a consultant in the oil industry, before returning to Dublin in 1996 to take up a lectureship at UCD. Peter was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Sedimentology from 2002-2006.
Active iCRAG projects:
- Tracing sand provenance – lessons from extant systems and resilience of provenance signals in the subsurface - Dr Sebastian Zimmerman
- Syn-rift basin-fill architecture – constraints from forward stratigraphic modelling - Eoin O'Donnell
- Crustal and sedimentary architecture of hyperextended basins - Dr Damien Gagnevin
- Controls on clay distribution at bed-level in deep-water sandstones; implications for permeability and hydrocarbon drainage - Arif Hussain
- Prediction of deep-water stratigraphic traps developed across the syn-rift to post-rift transition in Atlantic-margin basins - Lewis Whiting
- Development of Clare Subsurface Training Centre and securing the long-term future of Clare-based applied geoscience - Dr Anthea Lacchia
- Reservoir significance of thin-bedded successions in deep-water settings- Dr Emma Morris
- Comparative stratigraphic and structural evolution of perched Mesozoic rift basins along the eastern margin of the Rockall Tough - Dr Stratos Delogkos
Role
- Co-Principal Investigator
Institution
- UCD
Research Area
- Energy Security
Expertise
- Basin Evolution, Global Subsurface Training Centre, Sediment Tracking, Unconventional Hydrocarbons
